Annie Gray's Victory in the Kitchen - 3 sets for reading groups
You might know the wonderful Annie Gray from various documentaries on food history, and the BBC’s Kitchen Cabinet.
Her latest book, Victory in the Kitchen, tells the true story of Georgina Landemare, Churchill’s cook.
Georgina Landemare saw herself as ordinary but her accomplishments, and the life she lived, were anything but. She started her career as a nursemaid, and ended it cooking for one of the best-known figures in British history, a man to whom food was central, not only as a pleasure by itself, but as a diplomatic tool in a time when the world was embroiled in a worldwide war.
Victory in the Kitchen is a culinary biography: a life lived through food, ranging from rural Berkshire to wartime London, via Belle Epoque Paris and prohibition-era New York. Through one eager eater, and one skilled cook, Annie Gray contextualises twentieth century food through two figures who were both intimately involved with it.
Recipes include Georgina’s German Kougelhof, Curried Brains, macaroons, Boodles Orange, Mousse de Maple and ‘Chocolat Cake Good’. So you could try making something for your reading group meeting – we’d love to see the photos if you do!
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